A recent letter arrived in my mailbox
from a distraught American over his personal crisis with illegal immigration
in Wisconsin. He wrote, "I am so sick of illegal aliens sucking the
life out of our country. Our taxes go up and up and who benefits?
The aliens. Our hospitals are overrun and our businesses ruined. I
work in a factory and we employ a large number of illegals. How do
I know? I ask them. They aren't afraid of being deported. Once they
are here and have a job, they get their friends and families jobs.
They’re killing our own children’s education and destroying our classrooms.
I just don't know what to do. Help us."

Not only that, legal immigrant
Chai Vang blasted six Wisconsin hunters to death last fall on a shooting
rampage because he was asked to leave their private property. It’s
another aspect of the farce of ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘diversity’
being jammed down America’s throat. It’s not working all over the
world with wars and tension brought about by forcing incompatible
cultures onto one another--so our Congress and this president want
to make our country into a balkanized war zone.

Do you remember Teddy Roosevelt
and the Rough Riders in the Spanish/American War? Do you remember
Audie Murphy a real life hero from World War II? Do you remember GI
Joe slinging a rifle over his shoulders to protect America? Do you
remember that sailor giving a kiss to that nurse on the streets of
New York at the end of WW II?

That was their time; this is yours.
It’s time you take the gloves off and take action on behalf of your
kids and the future of this country.

Wishing this nation-destroying
crisis will go away on its own won’t work.

Hoping that Bush and Congress will
stop this invasion renders all of us a bunch of fools! Bush has done
NOTHING to stop the 10,000 illegal aliens crossing our borders nightly.
Nothing to stop the flow since 9/11. It might be added that we don’t
have much time to stop this invasion. The sooner you act and all your
friends, the sooner we control our borders.

Pass this commentary to all your
friends with directions on how to take action.

Ed Garrison started with the tenth
reason and worked up to the first.

Why? Because the first nine support
the most important reason which you will find out. Garrison brilliantly
declares:

10. It's time to raise the
American standard of living. The real minimum wage has been declining
for over a decade. Some advocate raising the minimum wage--but this
would raise the price of unskilled labor above its free-market value.
Mass unemployment would result.

Why has the market value of unskilled
labor declined? For the same reason that all prices move: supply and
demand. It's hard to change the demand side of the equation: You can't
make anyone "need" an unskilled worker who doesn't need one already.
For years, however, we have been artificially modifying the supply
side by tolerating a massive influx of unskilled workers across our
borders. We can reverse the trend by enforcing immigration laws. We
won't need to raise the minimum wage. It will raise itself. Millions
of Americans will be lifted out of poverty, and millions more from
the lower middle class to prosperity.

9. We can immediately create
millions of new jobs. Conservative estimates place the number of illegal
aliens in the U.S. at 10,000,000. Taking into account minor children
and the aged, that's still millions of people who are flooding our
labor force. Remove them, and opportunities will abound for Americans.

There's a canard that says that
illegals "take the jobs Americans don't want." This is a fallacy!
There's no job an American can't or won't do for a living wage. It
is a cruel joke on the American worker to allow illegals to depress
wages for many jobs below poverty level, and then to mock Americans
for being reluctant to participate in the poverty.

8. Breaking the law is crime.
Lawbreakers are criminals. Out of deference to the PC crowd, many
like to use the term "undocumented workers"--as if illegals were merely
missing a piece of bureaucratic paperwork. By the same logic, we can
call a car thief an "undocumented driver."

Our immigration laws exist for
good reasons: to protect our safety, our national sovereignty, our
standard of living, our health, and our culture. Those who break them
may "want a better life for themselves," but then again, so do all
that enrich themselves by disregarding the law.

Many people who wish to immigrate
honestly are waiting patiently. Granting privileges like driver's
licenses and social security cards to illegals is a slap in the face
to law-abiding citizens and immigrants alike. It's like opening an
express window to give titles and owner's cards to car thieves, while
making legitimate owners stand in line!

7. Open borders threaten
our safety. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, two things have
become clear. First, we have enemies, and they are vicious and without
conscience. Second, our enemies obviously believe that an attack from
within is more feasible than an attack from without.

Even before the horrid events of
September 11, our immigration laws had the primary purpose of protecting
us. The use of visas and passports allows our government to monitor,
and control who enters our country, and why.

Few illegal aliens are terrorists.
But it only takes one! More importantly, the creeping ideology of
open borders--the (usually unspoken) belief that treating foreigners
who enter our country differently than we treat our own citizens is
somehow "discriminatory" or "racist"--is creating a terrible dilemma:
Either we cease to monitor the aliens (and open ourselves up for even
worse attacks), or we create the "equality" of the police state by
casting aside constitutional protections for citizens and monitoring
everyone. The more resolutely we protect our borders against threats
from without, the safer, and freer, we can live within them.

6. We're a nation of 293
million; the Third World population is over six billion and growing
by 85 million annually. Do the math. Our country seems large, but
its population is tiny compared to that of the Third World. China
and India alone have seven times our population.

For whatever reasons, our society
has succeeded in creating immense wealth where many others have created
only poverty. An American welfare recipient would still be "rich"
by the standards of most of the world. One can't blame the citizens
of countries who produce much less wealth per capita than we for wanting
to reap the benefits our forefathers have sown for us. But if we open
the borders, our island of productivity and prosperity will soon disappear
beneath a flood of Third World squalor.

5. American culture is worth
preserving. Culture is more than operas and Shakespearean plays--it's
the sum total of the customs, beliefs, artistic creations, attitudes,
goals, and norms that make a society what it is. It is passed down,
as a treasure, from grandparent to parent to child. In other words,
culture is what gives us our identity.

Some advocate "multiculturalism"--creating
a society in which multiple cultures exist side by side, and believe
that "diversity"--having as many cultures as possible, with none dominant—is
desirable. The majority of the media elite believes that we need more
multiculturalism and diversity; the majority of the population doesn't.

Regardless of how anyone stands
on this issue, the fact is that our society is already multicultural
and diverse. Anyone who wishes to enjoy, and celebrate, the many cultures
now coexisting in America need only visit any American city.

By contrast, genuine American culture--the
Founding Fathers, the story of the pioneers and the winning of the
West, the Pledge of Allegiance, Columbus Day, the Bill of Rights--is
under constant assault. Some of our country's detractors vilify all
that is traditionally American, while others would reduce our traditions
to one more example of quaint folklore beside those of other nations.

Russian culture can be found in
Russia, Mexican culture in Mexico, multiculturalism in any major city...
but where can one find American culture? Only in a place where Americans
treasure it, and lovingly transmit it from generation to generation.
Immigration laws should ensure that those who seek to live permanently
on American territory be willing to adopt and preserve its culture.
And they are useless unless they are enforced.

4. It's not your father's
immigration. Previous generations romanticized immigration. The images
are still with us: Starry-eyed Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Polish
arrivees toting their bags and trunks onto shore at Ellis Island...
The tablet at the base of the Statue of Liberty exhorting other nations
to "Give me your tired, your poor..." The native-born American learning
to love pizza and bagels.

That was then. This is now. Yes,
there are still many people in foreign lands who harbor the "American
Dream," and who seek to come here to realize it. Let them arrive LEGALLY
according to our laws.

Millions of illegal aliens, however,
have attitudes and motives very different from those of the immigrants
in the fading black-and-white photos of yesteryear. It's not fashionable
to speak the truth about this group. But the truth must be spoken.

What makes this new breed of "immigrants"
different? To begin with, they're not "immigrating" at all--they're
sneaking in. They don't have an "American dream" of building this
country; rather, though still loyal to their home nations, they want
to exploit ours economically. Many even dream of taking over regions
of our country, and displacing us. There's already a word for this
goal: Reconquista of Aztlan. If the members of this group don't intend
to return home, yet have no loyalty to America, what should we call
them? Certainly not "immigrants."

A ‘colonist’ is a better term.
Today's colonists, like those of the past, want to build enclaves
on American soil from which they can expand their own wealth and power,
and that of their homeland, while drawing on the resources that were
created by the native population. How can we welcome legitimate immigrants
while keeping out colonists? By knowing who is coming here, and why,
and only admitting those whose presence is in our country's best interests.
In other words, by enforcing immigration laws.

3. It's an issue we can
all come together on. Conservatives, traditionally, aim to preserve
the valuable legacy of the past, and to protect freedom by limiting
the power of government. Liberals seek to provide all citizens, even
the most disadvantaged, with the opportunity to realize their full
potential. Both have worthy goals, but often squabble over how to
realize them.

Removing illegal aliens can give
us the best of both worlds. We can preserve our traditional culture.
And without resorting to costly and intrusive government programs,
we can give our poor a genuine "hand up": as the glut of cheap labor
dries up, those at the bottom rung of the economic ladder will suddenly
find themselves able to climb higher without ruinous competition.

People of good will on the left
and the right can only smile approvingly as the free market provides
our unskilled and uneducated with a decent wage, and with a job market
that welcomes instead of marginalizes them. We can "live better than
we did four years ago" and have a rebirth of national pride, as President
Reagan wanted for us. And we can have a "New Deal" for our poor, a
society where no American is left out, which were the ideals of President
Roosevelt. At last, we can come together. That's what patriotism is
all about.

2. We either face tough
issues now, or tougher ones later. Immigration issues are complex.
We need a national debate--which, judging by the 2005 inaugural speech
by Bush--isn't happening.

Most Americans, when confronted
with the facts, want what they want now: strict enforcement of our
immigration laws. It won't be easy. We'll have to find workable ways
to deport illegal aliens without creating unnecessary hardships for
those who have broken our immigration laws, and without creating severe
dislocations for the unscrupulous employers who have benefited from
their presence. And, of course, we'll have to counter, with quiet
reason, the voices of those who scream "discrimination" or "racism."

Some cringe at the challenges that
await us.

These challenges, however, pale
in comparison to those that future generations will face if we fail
to act. Imagine an overcrowded, impoverished America with shrinking
wages and expanding burdens on the social service system. Imagine
an America where millions of Americans have been driven out of their
neighborhoods by throngs of foreign colonists who neither speak our
language nor understand the culture that created American prosperity--but
who deeply resent the poverty that inevitably results from their own
unwillingness, or inability, to live as true Americans.

Will Americans be forced to tax
away their own shriveling wealth, and to transfer it to the aliens
within our borders, if they wish to appease the colonists' anger?
Will the shrinking American middle class merge with the alien underclass
to form a new "peasant culture" while a tiny American elite trembles
behind the walls of heavily policed gated communities? Or will full-scale
cultural and racial war break out? None of these possibilities is
appealing. Nonetheless, a society is a reflection of the population
that comprises it. If we, as an advanced society with a low birthrate,
continue to import a Third World population with a high birthrate,
we will become a Third World society, and will face the problems,
which other Third World societies face as well.

Isn't it better to face the issue
of illegal immigration now--and to do something about it? ... and
the number one reason is:

1. We owe it to our kids
and grandkids. Our children and grandchildren will marvel at the digitized
archives of the TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s. They'll see a prosperous,
free, united America-- the envy of the world, a place anyone would
be happy and proud to call home. This, they'll realize, was the legacy
our grandparents and parents left us, the American citizens of the
early 21st century.

How will the America we leave to
our children stack up against the America our parents left to us?
What will future generations think of us?

Will we be known as the preservers
and expanders of the beautiful legacy, or as its destroyers? By our
actions or inactions, we're deciding which it will be. Right now.

Garrison gave us the most powerful
and compelling reasons I have seen for each one of us to take actions
for preserving our country. It behooves each of you to use your computer,
telephone, radio station, TV station, letters to the editor of your
newspaper and calls to every senator and congressman every week relentlessly
to gain national focus on this immigration invasion. Democracy is
not a spectator sport. This nation is in danger of becoming a Third
World nightmare with all the corruption, disease, illiteracy, violence
and balkanization known all over the world. We need a 10-year moratorium
on all immigration to catch our collective breath and we need deportation
of over 15 million illegal aliens in a slow and orderly fashion.

That’s why you may want to write
me for the 28-point action letter for stopping this nation-destroying
invasion. For you West Coast night owls, every Thursday you can catch
yours truly in Las Vegas, Nevada on Mark Edwards’ "Wake Up America"
talk show on 50,000watt KDWN-Am-720 10:00 PM to midnight PT, or on
the worldwide internet at www.AmericanVoiceRadio.com.
This is your nation and this is your time to take action. It is a
sacred trust handed down since the time of Thomas Jefferson and our
founding fathers.

Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of
the world, cultures and families in that he has bicycled around the globe
100,000 miles, on six continents in the past 26 years.

He has written hundreds of articles (regularly)
for 17 national and 2 international magazines. He has had hundreds of
editorials published in top national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain
News, Denver Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.

His first book, "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS"
by Falcon Press is available nationwide. His second book "STRIKE THREE!
TAKE YOUR BASE" by the Brookfield Reader published in January 2002. His
bicycle books include "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD."

Frosty Wooldridge has guest lectured at Cornell
University, teaching creative writing workshops, magazine writing at Michigan
State University, and has presented environmental science lectures at
the University of Colorado, University of Denver and Regis University.
He also lectures on "Religion and Ethics" at Front Range College in Colorado.

Millions of illegal aliens, however,
have attitudes and motives very different from those of the immigrants
in the fading black-and-white photos of yesteryear. It's not fashionable
to speak the truth about this group. But the truth must be spoken.